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Andrea Catellani

Professeur

SSH/ESPO Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales, politiques et de communication (ESPO)

SSH/ESPO/COMU Ecole de Communication (COMU)

SSH/ILC Institut Langage et Communication (IL&C)

SSH/RSCS Institut de recherche Religions, spiritualités, cultures, sociétés (RSCS)

SSH/ILC/PCOM Pôle de recherche en communication (PCOM)

  • Expertise :
  • Semiotics
  • Environmental Communication and Discourse
  • Discourse and Rhetoric analysis
  • Religion and Communication

Andrea Catellani studied communications sciences at the University of Bologna (Italy). He obtained a doctorate in Semiotics in 2006, with a thesis on early-modern illustrated spiritual literature. He has taught semiotics and communication analysis in different universities. Between 2007 and 2009 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain, Belgium), as a member of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Analysis (GEMCA). He has been an elected member of the administration board of SFSIC (Société française des sciences de l'information et de la communication). He is now a professor in communication, semiotics, and communication ethics at UCLouvain. He is a member and previous director of LASCO (Laboratory for the Analysis of Organisational Communication Systems, part of the Institute for Language and Communication, UCLouvain), and affiliated to the research institute Religions, Spiritualities, Cultures, Societies (RSCS). He is the president of the Jury of the Master in Communication of UCLouvain. He is co-founder and facilitator of the study and research group "Environment, Communication, Science, and Society" (SFSIC). He is a member of the Council for Sustainable Development of UCLouvain.

Research: He has published several articles and texts in different languages on semiotics, environmental communication, contemporary communication, communication ethics, early-modern cultural analysis, and religious communication. He is interested in analyzing discourses and the relation of text and image; his approach is inspired by the tradition of semiotics. His current research is on environmental communication, climate change communication, discourses on human-nonhuman relations, and the discourses on responsibility and values by different types of organizations. Another area of research is the relation between contemporary communication, in particular digital communication, and religion.